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Reconstructing Roman pottery
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Small Finds - Drawing Reconstructed Roman pottery
What I have done here is show how a sherd of pottery can sometimes give us an impression of what the pot was like. This is especially the case with a reasonable rim or base sherd. You can get an idea of the diameter of the rim/base, by holding it over a home-made chart of circle sizes. Then you can sometimes rock it to get a measurement of its angle.
From these measurements, you can bring the pots a little bit back to life with drawings like those above - from sherds of Roman pottery from site 32349 at Thetford for example. Do-it-yourself archaeology, I like it!
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